Improvement in sewing-machines for fringing



PHILENA QASSELBERRY. improvement in'Sewing Machines for Frnging. No. 125,270'.

Patented April 2, i872.

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i iin, iii'h i UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE PHILENA GASSELBERRY, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT VIN SEWING-MACHINES FOR FRINGING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,270, dated April 2, 1872.

To all Iwhom it may concern:

Beit known that I, PEILENA CAssELBERnY, of the city of Peoria, in the county of Peoria and in the State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sewing-Machines; and do hereby declare that the followin g is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawin gmakinga part of this specification, inwhich like letters of reference refer to like parts, and in which- Fgurel represents a perspective view of the part of a sewing-machine adjoining and connected with the throat-plate D which carries the fringing7-opening; Fig. 2, side elevation of the salne, showing a transverse section of the throat-plate, needle-hole, and fringing-opening; Fig. 3,-plan of throat-plate, showing needle and fringing-opening. Fig. 4 shows the operation of fringing. The partlyfringed material conceals all of the throatplate; but the parts concealed below are indicated by dotted lines and letters of reference.

f Like letters in the different gures of the drawing indicate like parts.

This invention consists in extending the needle-opening of the throat-plate of a sewingmachine to the side of the plate to adapt the saine to frin ging purposes, in conjunction wi th a forked needle.

D represents the throat-plate; a, the needlehole, which I enlarge in the hole b b, extending parallel with the feeder E and to the side of the plate, making it large enough for the action of theneedle in fraying or frin ging out the edge ofthe material to be fringedthat is, making afspace for the fringe to pass away from the needle downward, extending for this purpose some distance forward parallel with the feeder-perhaps a distance of one-half an inch; (l, the needle, forked, and inserted in the usual mode, and in place of the usual-eyed needle; E, the usual feederthis represents a dropfeed-used in conjunction with the forked needle C and the enlarged hole b b, the arrows showing the direction of its motion in feeding, being the same in fringing.

The operation of this device is as follows: The material to be fringed is cut diagonally across the warp and woof, or bias,7 and this edge is passed vbeneath theI foot or cloth presser stationed above the feeder E, the width or depth of the fringe being graded by the distance of the right-hand edge of the material from the forked needle U, which is simply a needle flat at the point and with a notch cut on its edge, which notch cornes down on the threads of the material and pushes them down from that part which passes under the line of the needle, and from this line to the edge of the material at the outer side of the fringin ghole I) b, the latter hole being for the purpose of allowing the fringed edge to pass away from the needle to prevent the latter from being clogged. f

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The adaptation for use, in connection with a fringing-needle, of the throat-plate, having the opening a b, for the purpose set forth.

ln testimonythatI claim theforegoinglhave hereunto set my hand this 9th day of August, A. l). 1871.

PHILENA GASSELBERRY.

Witnesses:

W. BUREIs, E. P. GOODWIN. 

